Wilhelm Lachnit (1899 - 1962) is one of the most important representatives of 20th century art in Dresden. His artistic beginnings date back to the 1920s, when he was one of the co-founders of the New Objectivity movement in Dresden. From 1947 to 1953, he was a professor of painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. However, the exhibition at the Städtische Galerie is dedicated to the artist's late painterly work, which he developed with great consistency after 1945 until the end of his life. The exhibition brings together 46 paintings, some of which have not been on public display for decades. The paintings are characterised by their austere composition and bold colouring. Classicism and the pursuit of beauty, paired with the experience of nature, fantasy and subtle humour determine the pictorial themes: Figurines, masks and circuses, still lifes and landscapes.